Déploiement et administration PROXMOX et CEPH

Virtualization for Enterprise: Build a Highly Available & Scalable Cluster with Proxmox & Ceph

Businesses, especially large enterprises, have increasingly adopted virtualization to optimize their IT infrastructure. Instead of managing hundreds of physical servers for individual services, organizations now leverage a smaller number of powerful servers to host numerous virtual machines (VMs). Common technologies employed include KVM and QEMU, often running on platforms like VMware ESX. These enterprise-grade solutions come with enterprise-level pricing.

Proxmox offers a robust solution for virtualization and Linux containers, along with essential enterprise features. It includes software-defined storage, replication, backup, lightweight storage provisioning, and high availability.

This course guides you through building your first highly available and scalable cluster – designed for easy expansion with additional storage or compute power, all without downtime. The cluster ensures continuous operation even if individual servers fail.

You'll gain essential knowledge and skills to create a production-ready, redundant cluster using Proxmox and Ceph. Both Proxmox and Ceph are proven, time-tested technologies.

Proxmox is a leading virtualization platform offering sought-after features like live migration, high availability groups, and backups. Ceph provides a reliable and highly scalable storage solution, built for performance and data integrity. With Ceph storage, you can seamlessly expand your storage capacity on demand, without any service interruptions!

This course demystifies Ceph, demonstrating it's not a complex black box, but an intelligent solution that's surprisingly easy to install and manage. It's an introductory course designed to equip you with the core skills and knowledge needed to build your first highly available cluster.

If you've explored OpenStack but found it overly complex for your environment, you'll likely find this course appealing, as it's geared towards smaller deployments.

Key topics covered:

• Virtual Machine (VM) Creation & Management
• High Availability Cluster Setup
• Storage Virtualization with Proxmox
• Ceph Storage Deployment & Management
• Live Migration
• Backup & Replication Strategies
• Scalability & Performance Optimization

(Note: As of the time of writing, the Proxmox version is 7.)